St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-17
CONTEMPT ANDSCORN
The Minneapolis Tribune Still
Being Dissected By Press
and Public.
A Storm Of Indignation Over
the Insult Offered the
Presidents Wife.
Evidences Of Probable Seces-
sion From the Knights
Of Labor Ranks.
Memories of TIE Exposition
Liberati's FareWell--Can
Saloons Run Sunday?
A WOMAN'S WIT
Turned Upon the Tribune's In
SuItin@ E0itOriaI---An E,NnOSe.

suIting Editorial---An Expose.
To the Editor of the Globe.
Although the recent insulting thrust
made by the Tribune may have been
sufficiently recalled and condemned. |
desire to speak of the affair from
Woman'S standpoint, knowing that l
voice the sentiment of hundreds of
Minneapolis women. So far as woman
can be anything politically, am a Re
publican, consequently am not a devotee
at CleVeland's shrine, | am one among
thousands of loyal American women
who have for more than year looked
upon Frances Folsom Cleveland as the
representative of all that is chaste.
modest, pure, digniiied; in short, all
that is WOmanly.
From the ranks of the people, SIM
pie attorneys daughter, she took her
place at Our presidents" side the first
lady of the land. There was no vulgar
display at the marriage, either i'll dress
or appointments. Every detail of the
affair betokened the quiet, retiring ele-
CANT taste that has characterized the
lady's subsequent life. Everywhere. as
hostess at the White house the guest of
distinguished people in other cities. as
SlSting her mother in entertaining
friends at Oak View, or later at her
husbands side the guest of the Ameri-
can public she has borne herself with a
demeanor at once modest and dignitied,
with an unSeltiShnesS that has sacrificed
personal comfort and rendered apparent
her desire to please the people who
have SO hOEored her husband. There
has never be ell at any time a shadow of
cause for the assertion made in the Tri-
bune editorial and the writer, or rather
the man who dictated that article. must
have measured the worthy couple in
question in his own family half bushel,
which. unfortunately. is too infinitely
small intellectually, morally and socially.
If woman must have motives for mar
rying man (other than love and eS-
teem) why not question OF seek to find
the motives of a woman who could
marry man whose vanity, egotiSm and
shallow brains render him repulSive to
people of good taste? Seal-Skin coats.
white satin vests. and frilled shirt
fronts cost money to be sure, but there
are women of excellent taste who could
not be prevailed upon to marry BRAIN
less dude, even though he were the for
tunate posSessor of all these-prts his
hair in the middle, owns newspaper
stock, has military title and halls from
Boston. Speaking of motives, and
while in search of them, it has been
suggested that the article in question
may have been written to give vent to
Indignation caused by personal Sights.
Those who read between the lines. and
who know a certain managing editor
well, are not slow to form their conclu-
Sions.
Although Mr.. Blethen has been
widely credited with the authorship of
the contemplate article. it is now gen
orally known, and goes without saying,
that the nominal head of the Tribune'S
editorial department should be held re-
SpOnSible and socially oStTaciSed for it.
The fact that he has been denominated
in society as ladies man." that SIM
pering Stiffness speaks of him as $50
stunning sweet, don't you Know"
weighs nothing with women of sound
sense, and they recognize the fact that
man who would, after her departure
from city where she had been invited
by an admiring public, asSail a woman
who is known for her noble qualities, as
is Mrs. Cleveland. accusing her of moth
Ing less than prostitution for the sake
of social hOnOrS, is too low for good So
ciety.
Who but he would have seen any i'm
prOpriety in the fact that the daughter
of an idoliZed father should respect that
father struSted friend? or find food for
IOul SANDER III the 1act That while the
father rested in him the confidence
necessary to lead him to make that
friend his only child's guardian and
counselor? the daughter confided in
him also, learned to love him and be-
came his wife? Who but man puffed
up with personal vanity, who worships
his own image in mirror, pomades his
hair and wakes his mustache would
ridicule anOther'S physique or traduce
man for what he considers a deficiency
in personal charms?
1t is generally believed that the Trib-
une's subsequent communications de-
Tending the original insult were ded-
icated by the same head and heart. and
ii is known that stung to the quick by
the concentrations Of an angry. indig-
nant public, he wrote another CON
temptible article. the publication of
which Mr.. Blethen, as manager, would
not permit.
1t is a pity that the Tribune's gentle
manly associate editor should have been
the mouthpiece for so vile and insult
ing accusations. and still greater pity
that the gentleman who so ably man
ages the editorial department on Or
binary occasions is not its dictatorial
head. 1898